Author Archives: Massterlist

MASSterCLIPS: What's better than watching a week of local political talk shows? A week's worth of pols sounding off in just over four minutes. So latch your infantile attention span onto this week's MASSterCLIPS to see Scott Brown focus in on Elizabeth Warren and his relection bid, Sen. Bob Hedlund discuss Ron Paul and Barney Frank, Andrea Cabral crack wise…

HIS-TOR-Y: If it was still before Christmas and not half a week after, I would call Scott Brown the Rudolph of the U.S. Senate, where the other Senators apparently don't let him join in any of their reindeer games. But it is after Christmas, so I guess Scott Brown's not Rudolph, and just a guy who likes to give…

NEW BIFFLES: “Hawkeyed” Attorney General Martha Coakley's gaming industry oversight is the top story in today's Herald. Wait, what? Does the Herald know this is the same Martha Coakley that ran for Senate? I guess they've decided they like her now, seeing as they went so far as to give her the tough superhero pose. Or it's all viral…

LOOKING A DEAD HORSE IN THE MOUTH: Auditor Suzanne Bump jumps on the probation pig pile with a report that the department approved nearly $50 million in legal counsel fees without checking to see if the defendants were poor enough to qualify for state defense.(Republican, Globe)
MARKETPLACE OF IDEARS: Nothing says “Tuesday morning” quite like a 380-word Howie Carr …

CASINOS: The town of Foxborough is going to get their say whether or not they want a billion dollar “bucolic” casino built across from their already enormous football stadium. I wonder if situations like this are why most of what we think of as “Las Vegas” is built outside of town on unincorporated strips of desert. (Sun Chron., …